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“Now she wanted for me the same thing I thought I wanted. Acceptance, in her eyes, was simply another means for survival.”

Book:Farewell to Manzanar, Grade 10: Mcdougal Littell Literature Connections

Source: Farewell to Manzanar, Grade 10: Mcdougal Littell Literature Connections

“You cannot deport 110,000 people unless you have stopped seeing individuals. Of course, for such a thing to happen, there has to be a kind of acquiescence on the part of the victims, some submerged belief that this treatment is deserved, or at least allowable.”

Prejudice Injustice World War 2 Deportation

Book:Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

Source: Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

“That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now. Call it the foretaste of being hated. I knew ahead of time that if someone looked at me with hate, I would have to allow it, to swallow it, because something in me, something about me deserved it.”

Prejudice Injustice Internment

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